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Sunday, 11 December 2016

11th December 2016

Weather: NW 4, later WNW 2/3
Roosting at high tide were 7 Purple Sandpiper and 145 Turnstone, while counts from the ebb tide included: 80 Grey Plover, 40 Ringed Plover,7,000 Knot and 5,000 Dunlin. A Peregrine was at Middle Eye and a Kittiwake was found at sea together with the more expected 60 Common Scoter, a Great Crested Grebe and a Guillemot. Small birds on the island included 4 Wrens, a Blackbird and a Rock Pipit.